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I to THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1913. MAKING GOOD GRe Sheld on Book If you want more money, better position, greater influence-you must acquire greater efficiency. The business world demands this. THE SHELDON COURSE is assisting over 65,000 men in all departments of business to acquire a greater knowledge of the things that are necessary to achieve success in business.

Send for The SHELDON BOOK, which gives you the history of the Sheldon work, what it has done for thousands and what it can do for you. It is free for the asking. Use coupon below. THE SHELDON SCHOOL 200 Fifth New York Please send me the Sheldon Book, without cost or obligation: Name Business Address Firm SULZER GIVES OUT STILWELL'S LETTER Former Senator, Asking Pardon, Says He Was Threatened With Death If He "Squealed." PROMISED RELEASE' HE SAYS. Declares Promise Came "From Agents of Dominant Gov.

Sulzer Would Be Impeached. William Sulzer gave out a letter today, written to him by former State Senator Stephen J. Stilwell regarding his promised confession, and at the same time the impeached ex-Governor made a statement declaring that Stilwell had been threatened with death it he "peached." In the letter Stilwell said: "I have been promised by the agents of the dominant power my early release. Word was sent me before the recent political agitation that the Governor would be impeached and my prompt release would follow." In addition to this, Governor Sulzer declared that friends of Stilwell had come to him (Sulzer). and told him that Stilwell feared to confess while in jail lest he never get out alive.

Stilwell told these friends, Sulzer said, that he (Stilwell) had been warned by the underworld that if he confessed and implicated other Tammanyites. he would never get out alive. Sulzer said he had maintained that Stilwell must confess before being pardoned and that Stilwell held out for the pardon first. The Stilwell letter was as follows: "I hereby make application for Executive clemency and a pardon, as believe I have been amply punished for the alleged offense. I have lost my professional position.

and my business and opportunities have been destroyed, of themselves severe punishment, and therefore with the punishment I have reveived, I believe that justice has been satisfied. True, I have been promised by the agents of the dominant political power my early release. Word was sent me before the recent political agitation that the Governor would be impeached and my prompt release would follow. "There have been other promises made prior thereto of this same general character at several times looking to the change of my situation. "Without regard to the good faith or otherwise of these promises, I desire to say that I do not seek a release by such menus, but because I believe justice in my case has been fully satisfied.

Furof justice and the cause of the thermore, I propose to or further the ends and in every way within my power for the benefit of the good orderly govern- ment of this State and to show to the people the iniquities of the present sygtem of boss rule, whereby their representatives in the Legislature are placed between the alternatives of political death and destruction by failure to obey the political boss, or the violation of their obligations to the people otherwise. myself have been thus threatened with political extinction because I successfully fought for a certain measure demanded by the people and against the dictation of the boss, and I attribute my present position to that reason. I therefore desire to say that I regard it as my public duty to expose the venality of these conditions, of which I am fully informed, in the interest of the public good, and this is perhaps a proper reason why you as the chief representative of the people of this State should exercise clemency because it is to the interest of the people, justice and the good of the community. "I therefore pray your excellency's favorable consideration of this application for a pardon as you may in your discretion and wise judgment determine." No Mention of Sulzer, Glynn Says. Position Albany, October 28-Governor.

Glynn after hearing of the Stilwell letter and the Sulzer charges, issued a. statement denying that he ever had been approached on the former Senator's case or that he had any plan to free him. "So far as I am concerned, there is not a word of truth in the statement." he said. "No one ever spoke to me about a pardon for Stilwell, or even suggested the subject. I have never made any expression upon the subject to anyone.

No one has been permitted to make any such statement, suggestion or agreement by me. I have not even thought of the Stilwell case. No one has made any application to me with reference to executive clemency for Stilwell. The matter has never in any way been brought to my attention. No one has had the slightest justification for mentioning my name in connection with this matter.

It is another case of a hyberbolic use of the imagination for political effect." OCTOBER 28. Metropolitan Grand Opera 119 AT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Eagle Opera Ticket Contest One vote for Name Address To receive Grand Opera Tickets and Scholarships offered by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle this ballot must be cast Eagle Copyright, bezore Nov. S. ONLY THE CARTOONS WORRY MCCALL Wants to Find Out Who Is Sending Copies to His Home.

"WILL WIN," HE SAYS. Has No Intention of Making Any "Unwarranted" Attack on Mitchel. Edward E. McCall, Democratic candidate Mayor, today predicted that the ticket which he heads would be elected for, without a doubt. In 'the course of his daily interview with the newspapermen, Judge McCall asserted that every time a "nasty cartoon" about him was printed someone sent a copy of it to his house.

He was highly wrought up over this treatment and was anxious to find out who was to blame for mailing to him copies of newspapers containing these caricatures. Judge even denied a statement made by Governor Sulzer in his latest campaign attack, involving the Stilwell letter, that redounded to the credit of the Democratic mayoralty candidate. This paragraph from ex-Governor Sulzer's story was read to Judge McCall: 'When 1 told, Mr. Murphy that it would be a great mistake to interfere in the Stilwell case, that it would hurt the party, Judge McCall, who sat there, agreed with me about it and said: 'Chief, I agree with the Governor. You ought not to interfere in the Stilwell "Even though that puts me in a favorable light," replied Judge McCall, "I'll have to deny it.

No such thing ever occurred. Where does he say this happened? No such conversation ever took place in my presence. never heard Senator Stilwell's name mentioned in any conversation with Governor Sulzer, and he never mentioned his name to me or to him." When Judge McCall's attention was directed to the political advertisements promising an attack upon his opponent, John Purroy Mitchel, he said that he has "never even seen these advertisements." "I'll make no attack on Mr. Mitchel, which is unwarranted and unjust," continued the candidate. "If make al.y statement, I'll substantiate it with facts.

I don't believe I've sunk 80 low as to make an attack upon a man which is unwarranted." "Judge," he was asked, "from reports which have come to you, do you feel satisfied that the ticket which you head will be elected?" "Without a doubt," was the ready response, Then the matter of cartoons was brought up by Judge McCall himself. His attitude was a very belligerent one as he was asked: "How can I ascertain who is sending copies of newspapers with nasty cartoons to my house? Every time there is a nasty cartoon printed, some one sends it to my house." YOUTH WANTS A JOB. High School Graduate Wears Placard and Attracts a Crowd. Thousands of men, women and boys, coming from Brooklyn and uptown Manbattan, this morning, paused to read a Manila paper sign which a youth of perhaps 20 years of age, of prepossessing appearance, wore pinned brown overcoat, as he stood on Chambers street. with his to the railing, in front of the county backs, courthouse.

The sign read as follows: want a job. I am a high school graduate, and have spent four years preparing myself to get employment from some one desiring the services of a capable, energetic young man who can use his head and is not afraid of work. Will you employ me? If so, you will not have cause to regret it." The young man in question declined to give his name or address, stating that he hoped the method that he had adopted would secure employment without further publicity. He stood the gaze of those who gathered in knots about him bravely, but with no show of audacity. Finally, he removed the sign and disappeared.

Some said that he had been given the "chance" he sought. Others, that a traffic policeman had ordered him to "moxe on." I JOBS NOT FORTHCOMING. Brooklyn Lads Find Themselves Stranded in Plainfield, N. J. (Special to The Eagle.) Plainfield, N.

October 28-Assertng that they had given a man in New York $10 each on his promise to get them a job, two Brooklyn boys in their "teens" are at Police Headquarters here, victims of an old swindle. The boys their names and addresses as Russell Perkins, aged 12 years, of 3612 Fifteenth avenue, and Leo Geller, aged 15 years, of 1148 Fortieth street. Their parents have been notified. The lads sa ythat the stranger promised a 10 get them employment on a poultry farm in this city. DEATH OF MRS.

ROBERT AVERY. Virginia C. Risley-Deery, widow of General Robert Avery, died yesterday at her home, 98 Second place. Funeral services will be held privately and after cremation at Fresh: Pond the remains wil be interred beside those of her husband in the cemetery at Tunkhannock, Pa. Mrs.

Avery was born in Wilmington. N. sixty-eight years ago, the daughter of Richard Arms and Emily Sargent Risley, and was first married to Captain Wallace Deery, of the Confederate Army, After' her husband's death she married, in New York City in 1874, General Robert Avery, who had been prominent in the Union Army, and came with him to Brooklyn thirty -three years ago. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Louis.

Cassavant: a son by her first husband. Colwell Deery, and three by her second -Hugo. Theodore Morris and Walter Avery. MRS. S.

W. BRAINERD DEAD. Susan Williamson Brainerd, widow of Silas W. Brainerd, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.

H. Holland, Norfolk, aager 82 years. Funeral services will be held at Cypress Hills Cemetery tomorrow morning at 10:30 Her husband died September 21, 1908, and was for fifty-five years a resident of the Eastern District, living at 189 Marcy avenue, and prominent in its financial and religious affairs. He was 81 years old at his death. He was an argonaut of '49, and voted for every Republican President.

from Fremont to Roosevelt. Brainerd leaves four daughters, Mrs. Holland. Mrs. William G.

Hand, Ella Brainerd and Miss Silome Brainerd. VERDICT FOR MC ELROY. A jury today, before Justice Kelby in Part Ill of the Supreme Court, brought in a verdict for $3,500 damages in favor of William H. McElroy of 232 Willoughby avenue. The action was against Walton H.

Carpenter, of Katonah, N. whose automobile knocked the defendant unconscious on December 5 last, at Vanderbile avenuet and Fulton street. McElroy brought the action for $50,000 damages. FEAR DOUBLE TAXING UNDER INCOME LAW Litigation to Attack New Federal Act May Follow "Taxing at Source." LOCAL CONCERNS UNDECIDED. How Payment Will Be Made Not Yet Settled--Some Corporations to Foot Bills.

Brooklyn corporation managers and their counsel have not yet come to any decision a8 to whether their companies should assume the payment, under the new income tax law, of the one per cent. tax on their November first interest disbursements or not. Already some of the larger corporations of the country, such as United Steel Corporation, have announced that they themselves will foot, the tax bill for their bondholders because of provisions in the mortgages behind their bonds guaranteeing the payment of interest free of all tax. One of the local mortgage companies has made a similar announcement. An officer of one of the other local mortgage companies, however, this morning, stated that it was his understanding that the assumption of the payment of the tax by a corporation on behalf of its bondholders or the holders of mortgage investments guaranteed by it was contrary to the intent of the law, and a that his company would not make any refund to its customers on account of the tax.

While it undoubtedly Is contrary to the Intent of the framers of the income tax law that corporations should be doubly assessed, once on their net income and gain on their indebtedness, there appears, to be no specific prohibition 1 in the law against a corporation is assuming the payment of the tax for the account of holders of its bonds, if it deems that it is compelled to do so under the terms: of its contract with its bondholders. The laws simply states that. the "sourceholders" is liable for the tax. It is the general opinion that' the administration of the law will ultinately have to be changed so as to obviate the virtual imposition of a double tax on corporations. In cases where corporations are not going to assume the payment of the tax on account of their bondholders, despite a guarantee holding them exempt from all taxes, it seems likely that suits will be brought by the creditors affected to enforce the terms of the contract entered into with them.

But this is only one horn of the dilemma in which the new law has placed the corporations, for in cases where they announced the assumption of the payment of the tax for their bondholders, it seems likely that some of their stockholders will the payble taxation is unconstitutional. ment of the tax on the ground" that douFortunately for the local corporations, few of them have any interest falling due November 1. The largest interest payment falling due on that date 'concerns the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Interest on the consolidated 5 per cent. bonds of the company, $14,698,000, outstanding must paid on November 1.

While an official of the company stated this morning that no conclusion had as yet been reached, he could say that there was 110 clause in the mortgage behind tion. these bonds exempting them from taxaThe conditions of this mortgage, in other words, are not analagous to those upon which the United States Steel Corporation based its. action. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit has interest on only. a small Company mortgage, falling due November 1.

This mortgage is behind the first consolidated 5 per cent. bonds of the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban, of which $2,884,000 are outstanding. The interest on the various. bond issues of the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company is not payable till March next. The Bush Terminal Company has 110 more interest to pay until January next, and the E.

W. Bliss Company does not have to worry about interest until April. Officers of these corporations stated today that they were going slowly in the matter, and their hope was that before their interest payments fall due there would be some court interpretation which would serve as a guide for them. to follow in the matter of deductions at the source. COLLEGE MEN CHEER LUNN.

Tells How He and Fellow Socialists Have Run Schenectady. Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady, who was formerly a Brooklyn clergyman, got a rousing reception from the college Socialists last evening at. Carnegie 'Hall. The cheering and the applause at the end of his half hour address on how he and his Socialist colleagues have run the city government at Schenectady for the past two years last several minutes.

The other speakers were Mayor Lewis J. Duncan of Butte; who was reelected last spring in the face of a fusion of all the old parties, a situation that now confronts Mayor Lunn at Schenectady; Harry W. Laidler, who is the Socialist candidate for assemblyman from the Seventeenth District -of Brooklyn, and also the organizer of the legiate Socialist Society, under whose auspices the meeting was held. Charles Edward Russell, the Socialist candidate for mayor, presided. The collection amounted to $185.

FREDERICK D. COLCORD DEAD. Succumbs to Peritonitis in the New York Hospital. Frederick Dean Coleork of 551 Second street died last evening at the New York Hospital after an illness of five days from general peritonitis. Mr.

Coleord has been a resident of Brooklyn for the past thirty -four years. He was born at Stockton Springs, April 12, 1853, and came to Brooklyn when about 26 years old. Mr. Coleord was, until the time of his death, actively engaged in real estate operations, associated with the late Henry Korn. He was, until recent years, a member of the Montauk Club and of the Parkway Driving Club, and a director of the Union Bank of Brooklyn.

Funeral services will held at his late residence on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mr. Colcord leaces three sons, Frederick Alan H. and Cecil, and a daughter, Helen surviving him.

SUFFRAGE IN THE EIGHTH A. D. To arouse interest in the Woman Suffrage, parade to take place on Saturday, a mass meeting was held last night in the Warren Street M. E. Church, Warren and Smith streets.

Ernest L. Fox, pastor of this church, called the meeting and presided, with George E. Holbert on the platform. Mr. Holbert, who is a member of the Bronx Men's League, spoke for woman sultrage.

Miss C. Ryan gave humorous reading, in which "the cause" featured. Contralto solos were given' by Miss Hornby, soloist in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Mrs. Julia Nightingale Perkins and Mrs.

E. C. Cheel from the organizing committee distributed many circulars, and aroused a great deal of enthusiasm in the coming parade. The leaders of the Eighth Assembly District are Miss Sylvia Storti and Miss Nellie Hopkins, with J. S.

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BRANSON HERE TOMORROW Comes From Passaic to Be Latin Teacher at Erasmus Hall. (Special to The Eagle.) Passaic, October 28-Roswell H. Branson, head of the Latin department, at the Passaic High Schol, and the oldest member of the faculty of the local school, leaves tomorrow for Brooklyn, to take up his new duties as instructor in Latin at the Erasmus Hall High School. Mr. Branson came here in September, 1901, after having been graduated from Harvard University previous June.

He was' president of the Teachers tion of Passaic for four years. WOMEN'S LEAGUE ELECTS. Flatbush Organization Holds Annual Meeting. The Municipal League elected officers for the ensuing year today, at the annual meeting, held In the directors room of the Flatbush Water Works, Lenox road and Flatbush avenue. At the next monthly meeting a discussion of the budget will take place.

The officers elected today are: Mrs. Edgar S. Shumway, chairman; Ed mund H. Driggs, vice chairman; rMs. Kenyon Parsons, secretary, and Mrs.

V. H. Everson, treasurer. S. WEHNER'S FUNERAL.

Policeman Who Died From Appendicitis Had an Excellent Record. Funeral services for the late Sebastian Wehner, a' patrolman attached to the Atlantic avenue station, who died after an operation for appendicitis in the German Hospital, will be held tomorrow, in St. Leonard's He will be buried in Holy Trinity Cemetery. Mr. Wehner, who was 32 years old, was a policeman for five years, and had an excellent record in the department.

At his tuneral, a sergeant and a squad ot police will follow the body, while a delegation of the Spanish War Veterans, of which he was a member, will be present. Mr. Wehner leaves a widow and five children. BOYS BROKE INTO SCHOOL. Smashed Window, Desks and Walls to Seven and Italian Stole boys who Stationery.

broke into Public School a Number 20, at Keap street and Union avenue, stood boisterously arguing over the spoils. yesterday afternoon, at Union avenue and Devoe street. Miss Matilda C. S. Brooks, the principal, who was engaged in a hunt for the youthful thieves, overheard them and called! Patrolman Martin, of the Bedford nue station, who arrested them, They' had smashed al window 'in the playground, broke open desks and stolen stationery, smashed walls, and committed other acts of vandalism.

In the cellar of the dwelling at 38 Frost street, the plunder was found. prisoners ranged in age from ten to fourteen years. INDEX To Classified Advertisements 1n Today's Engle. Classification, Page. Amusements 6 Automobiles Anction Sales.

Bankruptcy Notices a Boarding 13-14 Bowling Notices Business Oppor ties. 1. Coastwise Corp. Notices. Dancing 8 Death Notices Dentistry Educational Inst' Financial 16-17 For Exchange Furnished 14 Help Wanted Horses Carriages.

13 Hotels In Memoriam ......18 Supplement. CONSERVATIVE IDEA IN SETTLING SUIT New Interest Shown in Shares of Brooklyn City Railroad. LONG LITIGATION IS ENDED. Former Policy of Pursuing Legal Action Abandoned in Favor of Conservatism, With the "official announcement, made yesterday, of the $1,650,000 settlement of the thirteen years litigation between the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, considerable activity in the shares of the latter company, little traded in for years, is now being shown and there is much interest in the prospective price that will be bid tomorrow when 900 shares of Brooklyn City, equivalent to 90 full shares, be offered at the Auction Sales Room, 14 Vesey street, Manhattan. There has been some trading in Brooklyn City shares since last Friday, when the settlement became unofcially known, and the high price in these transactions has been 171 per cent.

Financial experts are at a loss to figure whether or not the official confirmation will cause the shares to fall off. It is generally agreed, however, that the settlement marks a change in policy on the part of the Brooklyn City Company. It is accepted as meaning that conservatism, a policy strongly advocated by the present president of the company, Frank Lyman, was thought its best recourse. Under the former management those in control had believed it worth while to fight to the last, and the former advisers, William C. De Witt and Edward M.

Shepard, had insisted that the road had a good case. Ag the settlement 18 now made, the Brooklyn City pays over to the Brooklyn Heights company $900,000 at once, and rays the balance of the debt in quarterly instalments of $50,000 each, the unpaid the rate of 5 per will make balance meanwhile bearing, interest at the total closely approximate the amount of the judgment against, the Brooklyn City, as it stood the settlement. The judgment was $1,767,000. Great Risk in Carrying Case to Court of Appeals. According to the announcement of the directors of the company, much risk was involved in carrying on the case to the Court of Appeals as had, been planned.

President Lyman stated that affirmation of the judgment of the Appellate Division would add interest and make the total $2.157,000, and pointed out that there was also the possibility of its affirming the allowance of interest under the original award of the refree, in which event the liability of the company would have been about $4,127,000. In the lifetime of the late Edward M. Shepard, then counsel for the Brooklyn City, it had been promised that its contentions would be carried on to the Court of Appeals. Mr. Shepard had, in fact, it has been stated, prepared a brief for the apeal before his death, and he is said to have been firm in his conviction that the award against the company would not be sustained.

The whole case hinged on whether or not the Brooklyn City had carried out to the full the terms of the agreement by which it was leased to the Brooklyn Heights Company in 1893. The agreement was that the leased company should issue $3,000,000 in stock and the same amount in bonds and expend this sum in the electrification of its lines. The electrification was proceeded with, after the consolidation of the lines, and no question as to expenditures of the stipulated sum was ratsed until the organization of the B. R. T.

in 1896. Then the big consolidation required that all the books of the several companies in it should be gone over and the examination was said to have disclosed that the Brooklyn City had kept an unexpended balance, after electrification, of about $2,000,000. Suit was started for the recovery of this, with interest, in 1900, and the case was heard before ex-Judge D- Cady Herrick as referee. He allowed $1,740,258.38 as principal and $1,616,680.15 as interest to the Brooklyn Heights Company, and the award was confirmed by the Supreme Court. Many days were devoted to the argument on appeal before the Appellate Division, and that court gave a compromise verdict by disallowing the interest charges.

The case has since been pending before the Court of Appeals. SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETS Steps Toward Organization Taken at the Hamilton Club. The Committee on Permanent Organiration of the Brooklyn Public Safety Committee met yesterday afternoon at the Hamilton Club. The meeting was called to, order by Major J. W.

Tumbridge, chairman. Present were General George Wingate, the Rev. Father Farrell, Messrs. H. N.

Warbasse, Frank Tuttle, H. A. Bullock, John N. Harman, E. P.

Maynard, Miss Jessie Buneroft, Mrs. J. P. McCall. It was voted that the plan of by-laws before the committee and the suggested plan of permanent organization be presented to the general committee for adoption.

The plan of organization is to promote co-operative work on safety with the schools, playgrounds, the Boy Scouts, church and civic organizations and public institutions, other than schools. There will be a committee to get in touch with the city authorities having to do with the regulation of tramc and protection of the streets. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit System invites the committee on street railroads to keep as careful a watch as possible on the safety of operation of the system, and to call the attention of the pres.dent of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to matters in which it appears to the committee that public safety is not adequately protected. The interest of safeguarding the public against the unsafe transportation of explosives and the safeguarding of their use, and co-operation with the public authorities wherever possible in the enforcement of proper regulations con- cerning the possession and of firearms, was proposed. A committee will be appointed I to endeavor to secure the adoption of such borough regulations, ordinances or statutes as may be advocated by the General Safety Committee as a means of promoting public safety.

It is also to operate with the prosecuting authorities in the a enforcement of existing statutes designed to protect public safety. It was suggested by General Wingate to propose to the general committee an additional standing committee to report on hazardous occupations. The business of this committee will be to interest the employer in taking up the problem of accident preventions, and in adopting a definite plan of safety instruction for workmen, and to co-operate with the employer in carrying out such a plan. WANTS SALARY RAISED. Edward F.

Horne of 189 Chauncey street. En colored inspector in the Bureau of Combustibles of the Fire Department, obtained today from Justice Crane In the Supreme Court an. order to show cause why his salary should not be Increased to $1,750. Horne's salary at present is $1,500. On January 26, Police Commissiner Waldo recommended an increase to $2,000 and the oBard of Estimate recoinmended $1,750.

Fire Commissioner Johnson refused to give him the raise. William Wise Son FLATBUSH AVENUE Fulton and Nevins Sts. DIAMONDS IN LATEST PLATINUM MOUNTINGS. ASYLUM FOR DIAZ ON U. S.

S. WHEELING Continued From Page 1. be transferred one the merchant steamers bound for another, port. One of the possibilities in the situation, officials pointed out, was that the Huerta government might raise a question over the fact that Diaz is a brigadier gen- eral in the Mexican army. His resignation, recently tendered to Huerta, was not accepted.

How far such circumstance might enter into the situation was regarded as interesting, but officials here, without advices of any sort, other than news dispatches, were of the opinion that: Consul Canada and Rear Fletcher were within their rights in tending asylum to' Diaz as' a political refugee. A dispatch from Mexico City says that General Diaz was placed on the retired list of the Mexican Army by order of General Aurelio Blanquet, Minister of today, War. General Diaz had requested by telegraph on Sunday to be allowed to retire, and General Blanquet, after conferring with Provisional President Huerta, complied. General Diaz had held a commission for thirty years. The leaders of the Diaz party said today they understood that General Diaz, in requesting to be allowed to retire, was simply following the example of General Eugenio Rascon, Catholic candidate for the Vice Presidency; Brigadier General David de la Fuente, Liberal- Republican candidate for the Presidency, and other candidates of Sunday's election.

M'CALL WILL SPEAK AT TEN MEETINGS ON THURSDAY Edward E. McCall, Democratic candidate for Mayor, is scheduled to speak at ten mass meetings in Brooklyn Thursday! night. It will be probably his last tour of this borough before election, and the Democratic executive committee had it hard time yesterday afternoon arranging schedule that would get him to all of the places that wanted him between 7 o'clock-and midnight. As it was. they disappointed several organizations that had requested to hear him, but succeeded in crowding ten meetings into the evening.

He will begin his speechmaking" night at 7:30 o'clock, and is scheduled to reach his last stop a few minutes before midnight. llis first speech will be at the Thirteenth Assembly District Democratic Club, 100 Powers street, and his last will probably be made either at the Washington Club, Prospect place, or the Imperial, Ited Hook lane. The other meetings at which he will speak are: Parish Hall, Loonard street and Greenpoint avenue; Plaza Hall, Havemeyer and Grand streets; Military Hall, Leonard and Scholes streets; Palm Garden, Hamburg and Greene avenues: Somers Hall, Rockaway avenue ani Somers street; New Palm Garden, 226 Sackman street; Crystal Theater, Fulton street, opposite ing place. Other Democratic mass meetings that night at which McCall will be, if there is time, are: Seventeenth Assembly District Democratic Association, 590 Gates avenue: Jefferson Club, 176 Patchen avenue, Brooklyn Nest of Owls, Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues; John J. Keating tion, Grand avenue and Pacific street; Visitation Richards and Verona stroets.

Mr. McCall will appear at the Academy of Music about 9:30 o'clock tomorrow night, at a mass meeting run by the Business end Real Estate Men's McCall organization in Brooklyn. He is scheduled to speak first in Manhattan that night, and will come from there re to the Academy. He will end the evening at the dinner in the Knickerbocker Hotel, where he will be the guest of the New York Democratic Congressmen. MILES O'REILLY TO WED? Veteran Policeman Dodges Direct Questions on Subject.

A report is in circulation that Miles O' Riley, former captain of police, now a gray -hatred veteran, is soon to be married. The report is a persistent one. Captain O'Reilly was seen today, at his home, 775 Quincy street, and asked about it. "I only wish I knew somebody who would have me," he answered indirectly. He was tol dthat the report wast that he was to marry 8.

near -neighbor of his. "Any time I get anyone who will have me I will let you know all about it," replied the former captain, who was always fond of "'joshing' the reporters. He would neither directly confirm nor deny the story. ESQUIROL ELECTS A FEW To Ananias Club for Saying He Deemed Fight Hopeless. "It's a lie and I dare the man started the story to come into my omce at 831 Flatbush avenue, and tell it my face.

I'll call him a liar and a dirty cur and prove it." This was the comment of Democratic Assemblyman Joseph H. Esquirol of the Eighteenth District today when he was told that a story was being circulated in his district to the effect that he had given up all hope: of being elected, had decided to retire from the stump and cease his campaign activities. "I don't know who started such a story," he said. "It's a lie at any rate. I am going to speak tonight at the Madison Club, I have an engagement to speak at some church function this afternoon, and I got so many speaking dates ahead of me that I can't remember them all.

Expect to be elected! Well, just as much as I ever did in my life. Just as much as I did last year and I was elected then." Esquirol is running against Almeth W. Hoff the Republican ticket and Dr. Winans on the Bull Moose ticket. NO NEWS OF MISSING Mrs.

Lena Grant. 30 years of age, of 5322 Sixth avenue, is looking for her husband. John, 45 years of age, who has been missing since last May. Soon after his disappearance Mrs. Grant received a letter from him from Gloucester, saying that he was aboard a ship in that port.

He sent her some money, but he has not been heard from since. He is six feet tall and weighs 275 pounds, and, according to his little blonde wife, he is a wonderful man, who would be of no use to anyone but herself. CROWD AT EXPOSITION. There were about 6,500 persons present last night at the National Emancipation Exposition, being held at the Twelfth Regiment Armory, Manhattan. A band concert was given by the band for St.

Benedict's Catholic Home at Rye, N. Y. Then there was the lawyers' congress, and among the speakers were James D. Farr, assistant corporation counsel: W. H.

Lewis, Edward H. Morris and E. A. Johnson. ALLEGED GUNMEN FREED.

Because there was no one In court who could identify them, the twelve alleged gunmen who started a riot in Sheepshead Bay in August last, were discharged by Magistrate Nash in the Coney Island Naval Regulations in Matter of Sheltering Political Refugees. The policy of the United States in recent years has been to guard very Jealously the extension of the right of asylum and its efforts have been generully directed toward greatly restricting such rights. At one time it was proposed to secure an international agreement abrogating the right of asylum to political refuges, but that movement did not succeed. The latest position of the government as now applied to the situation at Vera Cruz by Rear Admiral Fletcher is laid down in the naval regulations as follows: "The right of asylum for political or other refugees has no foundation in international law. In countries, however, where frequent insurrections occur and constant instability of government exists, usage sanctions the granting of asylum, but even in the waters of such countries, officers should refuse all applications for asylum except when required by the interests of humanity in extreme or exceptional cases, such as the pursuit of a refugee by a mob.

Offers must not directly nor indirectly invite refugees to accept asylum." John Lind, President Wilson's personal representative at Vera Cruz, had been instructed to offer asylum to any citizen of Mexico or any foreigner who might be in danger. Acting under such instructions, Mr. Lind might have greater freedom of action than a naval officer bound by regulations. Officials here, however, have made it plain, within the last few days that they were prepared to give refuge to Diaz, for Secretary Bryan in response to a di-' rect question recently declared that the American Government would give asylum to Diaz or any other person in danger who asked for it. It was pointed out that had former President Madero taken refuge in the American embassy in Mexico City he would have been protected.

Refugees May Be Transferred to Some Foreign Vessel. The problem of what to do with Diaz and his party, now that they are out of Mexican territory, may be solved, in the opinion of offcials here, by permitting them to take passage for some other land foreign ship. They probably will not be permitted to remain on the American warships. The fact, however, that Diaz still is an officer in the Mexon a warrant, might complicate the sitican army, A or might be liable to arrest uation should he eventually take passage on a commercial ship lying in a Mexican. Officials here were convinced that Diaz was contemplating putting himself under the went protection recently of the under United guard to States a hotel when adjoining the American embassy.

His determination to remain in the city over Sunday was due to his presidential candidacy and a requirement of the Mexican Constitution that a presidential candidate be in Mexico on election day. board Admiral the battleship Fletcher's Louisiana, message, dated on, announcing the presence of the refugees on board Wheeling, was at once laid before Secretary Bryan, President Learns of Diaz's Presence on the Wheeling. Charlotte, N. October 28-When President Wilson's train passed through here shortly after 10 a.m. en route to Washington news dispatches were taken' aboard telling of Felix Diaz being taken aboard United States gunboat.

Wheeling at Vera Cruz as a refugee, but no expression was- forthcoming from Mr. Wilson. MEXICO IS SILENT ON ESCAPE OF DIAZ. Washington, October 28-Nothing was heard today from the Huerta administration in the way of protest against the extension of asylum to Diaz. There was some disposition in the State Department to question the real necessity for retuge, but it was believed no objection would be made by Huerta to his presence, on the American warship and that the Diaz party will be transported to a liner running to Havana or some northern port without molestation.

Reply to the inquiry of Rear Admiral Fletcher as to the disposition of Diaz and his friends was delayed but there. was no reason to doubt that the answer would be along the general lines of policy adopted, in such cases, that is to say, the refugees may remain aboard the Wheeling or any other of Admiral Fletcher's vessels until they can be sent away to some same place. Meanwhile, however, it is distinctly understood that General Diaz cannot make an American warship headquarters for a political propaganda; and his communication with persons ashore probably will be limited to members this family or personal friends, and must be non-political. Classification, Page. Lost and Legal Notices.

Mhtn. Amusements Miscellaneous Money Saving OpMusical portunities Occan Personals Political Railroads R. E. Loans Sits Wanted Special Notices Special Steamboats Travel To Let -For Sale 14 Wanted Where to Dine SHELTER FOR GENERAL DIAZ WAS ORDERED BY BRYAN. Washington, October 28-General Fella Diaz was given asylum in the American consulate at Vera Cruz and on the gunboat Wheeling at the direct instructions of the United States government, cabled a few days ago by Secretary Bryan to Consul Canada, Instructing him to shelter Diaz it his personal safety was endan sered..